Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science

Contents
Introduction
I  Musical Origins
	1 Pythagorean Medicine
	2 The Controversial Project
	3 Musica humana
	4 Homage to Herophilus
	5 Kepler’s Harmonic Physiology
	6 The Musical Disease
II  Sonic Turns
	7 Vibrating Fibers
	8 Rhythms of the Heart
	9 Songs of the Blood
III  Sounding Minds
	10 Music, Melancholia, and Mania
	11 Composing the Crisis
	12 Catalepsy and Catharsis
IV  Sounding Bodies
	13 Flying in the Dark
	14 Ultrasounding Bodies
	15 Tuning the Nerves
	16 Telephonic Connections
	17 Listening to Neurons
	18 Sonic and Rhythmic Knowledge
	19 Echoes and Envoi
Appendix: Two Papers on Muscle Sound by Hermann von Helmholtz
	Experiments on Muscle Noise (1864)
	On Muscle Tone (1866)
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
	Chapter 17
	Chapter 18
	Chapter 19
	Appendix
References
Source and Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Index